There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best man at my wedding.
The whole experience of 'Eastbound' has been completely unexpected and super-surprising every step of the way.
If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.
But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.
I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.
I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.
I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.
But obviously you don't want to just be the guy who comes in and sort of spices up every movie. So yeah, definitely moving into more of a leading man role would be great, but on my own terms.
You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.
So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.
It hasn't been anything that's been overwhelming or anything, but I do get recognized here and there.
